incubate

英 [ˈɪŋkjubeɪt]

美 [ˈɪŋkjubeɪt]

v.  孵(卵); 孵化; 培养(细胞、细菌等); 有(传染病在体内)潜伏

过去分词：incubated　过去式：incubated　现在分词：incubating　第三人称单数：incubates　复数：incubates　

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Collins.1 / BNC.10932 / COCA.18723

同义词辨析

broodhatchincubate【导航词义：孵化】

牛津词典

verb

• 孵（卵）；孵化
  to sit on its eggs in order to keep them warm until they hatch
• 培养（细胞、细菌等）
  to keep cells, bacteria, etc. at a suitable temperature so that they develop
• 有（传染病在体内）潜伏
  to have an infectious disease developing inside you before symptoms (= signs of illness) appear
• 潜伏
  to develop slowly without showing any signs

柯林斯词典

• VERB 孵化;孵（卵）
  When birdsincubatetheir eggs, they keep the eggs warm until the baby birds come out.
  1. The birds returned to their nests and continued to incubate the eggs.
     鸟儿回到巢里继续孵卵。
• V-ERG (使)(病毒)潜伏
  When a germ in your bodyincubatesoris incubated, it develops for a period of time before it starts making you feel ill.
  1. The virus can incubate for up to ten days after the initial infection.
     病毒在初次感染以后可以潜伏长达 10 天。
• VERB 酝酿;逐渐发展
  If you say that plans or ideasincubate, you mean that they develop slowly after a lot of thought or discussion.
  1. ...the fateful decision which had doubtless been incubating in his mind for years.
     无疑已在他头脑中酝酿了多年的重大决定

英英释义

verb

• sit on (eggs)
  1. Birds brood
  2. The female covers the eggs
  Synonym:broodhatchcover
• grow under conditions that promote development

双语例句

• Incubate under anaerobic conditions for the duration of the incubation period.
  在厌氧条件下培养，培养时间同培养期。
• Our aim is similar – to groom and incubate new concepts into the leading internet enterprises of the new generation.
  斗谷的理念也是相同：我们的目标是培养有潜力的网站概念成为新一代中国的领先网络企业。
• As discussed in my last Comment lines article, we are continuing to incubate new cloud applications to support new delivery and deployment models.
  正如我的上一篇“评论专栏”文章所讨论的，我们在不断孵化新的云应用程序来支持新的交付和部署模型。
• But it will also incubate ideas via the Internet, work with local partners and explore other options, such as stores within stores.
  但同时也将酝酿网络销售的想法、与本土企业合作，并探索店中店等其它选择。
• For example, the dengue fever virus takes about two weeks to incubate.
  例如，登革热病毒在蚊子体内大约需要两个星期的培育孵化期。
• In this article the author discuss at the information society and knowledge economy time, we must important that apply new education technology to raise school teaching quality, so that incubate adapt to society demand new human being.
  本文探讨了在当今的信息化社会和知识经济时代，应该重视应用教育技术，以提高教学质量，从而培养出适应社会需要的新型人才。
• Some veterans think many will close, just as many of the projects they incubate will fail.
  某些资深人士认为，大量创业加速器项目都将倒闭，就像它们培养的初创项目会失败一样。
• Incubate samples at4 ℃ overnight or at room temperature for4 hours.
  请在4℃的条件下，作隔夜培养。或是在室温下培养4小时。
• Though you need to have places you can incubate things, you also need to innovate from the core, he said.
  我们需要一些能够孵化新东西的部门，但也需要从核心出发来创新，他说。
• The size of the batch depends on how many eggs a manufacturer can obtain, inoculate and incubate.
  每一批的数量取决于生产商能获得多少只鸡蛋，给多少只鸡蛋注入病毒和进行培养。